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I Don't Want To Use The Word Reorganization. Reorganization To Me Is Shuffling Boxes, Moving Boxes Around. Transformation Means That You're Really Fundamentally Changing The Way The Organization Thinks, The Way It Responds, The Way It Leads. It's A Lot More Than Just Playing With Boxes.

This Really Is A Merger Of Equals. I Wouldn't Have Come Back To Work For Anything Less Than This Fantastic Opportunity. This Lets Me Combine My Two Great Loves - Technology And Biscuits.

Vision Is Easy. It's So Easy To Just Point To The Bleachers And Say I'm Going To Hit One Over There. What's Hard Is Saying, Ok, How Do I Do That? What Are The Specific Programs, What Are The Commitments, What Are The Resources, What Are The Processes We Need In Play To Go Implement The Vision, Turn It Into A Working Model That People Follow Every Day In The Enterprise. That's Hard Work.

You Can Never Be Comfortable With Your Success, You've Got To Be Paranoid You're Going To Lose It.

I Initially Wanted To Be A Teacher And Then I Was Going To Become An Engineer And Build Bridges And Highways But Pretty Soon I Went Into The Business World. I Never Did Get To Be A Teacher Except In A Different Way.